The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-10-15
ALL THE NEWS
OF WEST VIRGINIA RECORDED IN
BRIEF SPACE.
Incidents and Accidents and Matters
Miscellaneous.
Aut Scissors Ant -Niha.

county. who recently died in Wheel
ing, of cancer, bequeathed in her
will $4,000 to the various boards of
the United Presbyterian church.
S. W. Anderson, of Greenbrier
county, has been purchasing a num-
Der of fine beef cattle in that and
adjoining counties to export to Eu-
rope. His last shipment was LOG
head. The entire lot averaged 1880
pounds in weight, and the fifty heav-
lest averaged LOGO pounds in weight
The Charleston Star saws that it
has every reason to believe that Fin
nigan, who was under sentence to
eleven years Imprisonment in the
penitentiary for the worst of all
crimes, and who escaped from Jail,
has never been very far from the
city. A reward of 800 is all that
is offered for his return.
A white man by the name of Vii
lers, was recently convicted of muir
der in the first degree in Fayette
county, was sent to Moundsviie to
serve life term. From the same
county and at the same time two
colored men were convicted and SEN
fenced for three and FIVE years for
malicious shooting.
Jackson county, this State, has a
centenarian in the person of Mrs.
Jane Bumgardner She will be 10l
years old next Christmas. She
draws a pension from the govern
ment on account of her son, who was
killed during the late war. Mrs.
Bumgardner is still lively and gets
about without much assistance.
The tobacco crop of Fayette coun-
brings the highest market price of
any tobacco shipped to the Rich
mond markets; that is, the fine grade
of yellow leaf. A Mr.. Fouke, of
Philadelphia, had one hundred and
twenty acres of fine tobacco in that
county which was caught by the
frost and but ten acres destroyed.
She frost also damaged the fodder
to great degree. Other tobacco in
the county was principally cut. Mr..
Fauke's loss is about $4,000.
John Yeager, of Barbour county,
was fatally injured by stump of a
tree falling on him and crushing his
skull and breaking some ribs. while
he was working on the West Vir-
ginia Central road. The stump had
been blown from the grading and
lodged in tree, and while the hands
We're at work it fell upon the bank
of the road and rebounded, striking
Mr.. Yeager, causing the fatal acct
dent. Yeager was a local preacher
of the M. Z. church, and leaves a
wife and six children.
On Monday evening last, shortly
after dark, as Mr.. w. H. Evans was
riding down the street, Doc. Mcvey,
a little son of Sheriff McVey, at
tempted to run across the street in
front of the horse, when he was
struck by the horses feet and knock
ed down. He was carried into the
house and examined, but besides a
few slight injuries, he was unhurt,
though badly frightened. 1t was,
however, a narrow escape, and should
prove warning to him, as well as
to other boys, to be more careful
while playing in the streets hereaf-
ter.-Fayettecille Democrat.
j On Friday last a woman whose
name we were unable to learn was
struck by freight train near Diego,
in Kanawha county, and instantly
killed. 1t appears from what we
are able to learn that her little child
was playing near the railroad track,
when the mother hearing the APP
proach of train attempted to cross
over the track in front of the train,
fearing that her child was in danger,
when the train struck her, knocking
her some distance and mangling her
in fearful manner. She died from
her injuries the following day.
The Glade Fire brick Works at
Marion county, were put
in operation Monday. Over 3,400
brick were moulded that day. The
daily production will be at least
5000. Messrs. Mossover and Tan
sey, two skillful workmen from
Pennsylvania, have been employed
by the company as moulder and set
ter, respectively, and with that vet
eran engineer, Joe Robson, in charge
of the machinery and d. L. Morrow
in the Superintendent office, the
enterprise is certainly well manned
and the work will be given full swing.
The home of T. III. B. Dawson,
clerk of Morgan county, was recently
burglarized. The thief or thieves
gained an entrance through the
kitchen door and going to Mr.. Daw-
sons bed room found his pants hang
ing on the foot of the bed, which
they took to the front porch of the
house and there ''went through"
them. A pocketbook containing
$115 in money, some checks and val
liable papers were stolen. The
checks and papers were left in the
street near the U. B. Church with
the pocketbook. the thief evidently
knowing that such things would
lead to his detection, but the money
is still among the missing. A few
days previous Mr.. Dawson had re
ceived some $4,000 with which to
pay the insurance on Mr.. Menden-
halls mill at Sir Johns Run, and
the robbery was evidently commit
ted by some one who was cognizant
of this fact and thought they would
make a big haul, but the money of
course came in the shape of draft
and had been paid over to Mr.. Men
denhall day or two before.
Wretched. Indeed.